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1. "We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals." ~ Robert Caro
2. "You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world." ~ Robert Caro
3. "Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery." ~ Robert Caro
4. "Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work." ~ Robert Caro
5. "The right of a minority is so important in a democracy." ~ Robert Caro
6. "The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage." ~ Robert Caro
7. "In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be." ~ Robert Caro
8. "The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15." ~ Robert Caro
9. "I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet." ~ Robert Caro
10. "I finish what I have to do in the office." ~ Robert Caro
11. "I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why." ~ Robert Caro
12. "I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter." ~ Robert Caro
13. "My predictions are notably inaccurate." ~ Robert Caro
14. "Nobody believes this, but I write very fast." ~ Robert Caro
15. "Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work." ~ Robert Caro
16. "Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage." ~ Robert Caro

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The history of Vietnam lies in this bowl, for it is in Hanoi, the Vietnamese heart, that ph? was born, a combination of the rice noodles that predominated after a thousand years of Chinese occupation and the taste for beef the Vietnamese acquired under the French, who turned their cows away from ploughs and into bifteck and pot-au-feu. The name of their national soup is pronounced like this French word for fire..."
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